Chapter 7: [Disaster of Bloodlight?]

Gold bars! The kind as thick as a thumb.

Not one, not ten...

It's a pile!

Chen Yan's eyes nearly went straight!

Old Grandma... so rich?

Suddenly, he remembered when he was young, Old Grandma half-jokingly said she would teach him the basics and pass on her skills, but he disdainfully refused.

In the years since, to buy a single worker's comic book, he had to save on food and clothing.

Even when staying overnight at an internet cafe, he couldn't bear to buy a bottle of Nutrition Fast Line.

I...

Isn't this just being cheap!

Chen Yan couldn't help but slap himself!

If I had known today...

Staying overnight at an internet cafe?

I would have directly bought the internet cafe owner!

No...

Was my poverty for the first twenty years just something I forced on myself?

Shock, various complaints, and all sorts of thoughts swirled in his mind.

After banging gongs and beating drums for a few minutes, Chen Yan gradually calmed down.

Once cooled down a bit, his intelligence returned, and he immediately realized something seemed wrong.

This... a warehouse of gold bars, valuable as they are... but damn, there's no way to cash them out!

Chen Yan suppressed the heat in his heart and roughly estimated the gold here.

The weight of each gold bar, marked on it, is 100 grams.

Multiply by the number of gold bars.

Then multiply by the current gold price...

Chen Yan sucked in a mouthful of Lanzhou pulled noodles.

He roughly calculated the value in his mind: converted to Dragon Country currency, just over ten million.

Over ten million!

Taking out one-third could buy a three-bedroom apartment in Jin Ling Prefecture, plus a car.

The rest deposited in a bank for conservative wealth management could yield a hundred or two hundred thousand a year.

A single dog like himself, with a house and a car, and an annual income of a hundred or two hundred thousand.

He could lie flat and live very comfortably.

However...

Chen Yan was cautious in his heart: cashing out so much gold would be troublesome.

Fortunately, the warehouse contained not only gold but also some cash.

The bills were obviously a bit old, green American Dollars, and two large stacks of Hong Kong dollars.

The Dollars were one hundred per bill.

The Hong Kong dollars were one thousand per bill.

Chen Yan counted them: about 160,000 Dollars and 50,000 Hong Kong dollars.

Converted, that was just over a million Dragon Country currency.

A million is a lot; in Jin Ling Prefecture, Jiangsu Province, it could buy a small apartment.

Whether this kind of small private bank could exchange gold, he didn't know... or maybe they could act as an agent for sale...

But, no matter what, it's a bank; they must be able to transfer funds!!!

Chen Yan looked at the items in the warehouse.

Besides the gold and half a box of Dollars,

there were also some jade carvings.

He didn't know how much they were worth, but they were definitely valuable!

One jade thumb ring suddenly jumped into Chen Yan's eyes.

Emerald green, emerald green.

Chen Yan didn't understand jade... he just felt this green color was so pleasing at first glance.

To put it in layman's terms: green as if it were damn fake.

Could it be the legendary emerald?

He really liked it, so he stuffed it into his pocket first.

If he couldn't bear to take it off, he would just wear it back.

At the checkpoint, he would just tie a string around it, hang it on his neck; if someone asked, he'd say he bought it at a craft shop, made of plexiglass.

Chen Yan steadied his mind and pondered for a while, then made a decision.

The gold and jade would be left here for now.

In the future, he would think of a safe method to come back and handle them.

Don't think it's safe outside.

As an outsider, if he rashly produced gold worth tens of millions, where would he go to recycle it?

Official banks; the source of funds couldn't be explained!

The underground channel... has been targeted by bad people, and they died without even knowing how.

Plan for the long term!

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When Chen Yan walked out of the bank, his hands were empty.

He deposited the cash into a new account opened at the bank, then immediately remitted it to his own bank account on the mainland.

Now, am I directly worth a million?

I have money!

Shouldn't I treat myself to a good meal first?!

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The girl Gu, covered in black coal dust, crawled out from the woods beside the railway tracks.

Her stomach let out a gurgling sound.

Waa... I'm hungry.

The girl pouted in grievance.

Walking out of the woods, she asked someone for directions again... Although her clothes were obviously too conspicuous, luckily she managed to get the directions clear.

She walked on foot for another small half-day.

The girl Gu finally walked into the entrance of a village, searching towards the south inside the village.

Finally, she stood outside a courtyard gate.

Inside the courtyard, there was a small well.

East, west, south, north—no, rather, a circular ditch had been dug all around the well.

The girl Gu jumped in, stomped her foot, and her body squeezed in, standing inside the courtyard.

Looking at that circle around the well.

This is... what kind of move?

Who digs a ditch right next to a well?

It's like they have a serious illness!

Further inside...

She pushed a large copper lock on the door.

The girl raised an eyebrow; with a little force from those slender, tender fingers, the large copper lock snapped in two with a crack!

As soon as the girl Gu pushed the door open and entered the main hall, she looked up and saw a black-and-white memorial portrait hanging on the wall.

In the frame, a spirited Old Grandma smiled with such righteous confidence.

The girl was stunned, quickly stood up properly, patted the coal dust off her clothes, turned around, and searched the cabinet; sure enough, she found a box of incense.

She lit three sticks, bowed before the memorial portrait, and then inserted them into the incense burner.

The girl murmured softly: "Greetings to the Venerable One! May the Old Lord be well!"

She searched through the several rooms again...

In the drawer of the inner room, she found two express delivery receipts; the addresses were all the same, all in Jin Ling Prefecture.

The recipient's name was a person named Chen Yan.

These were all items the Old Grandma had mailed to Chen Yan a few months ago, some rural cured meat and stir-fried snacks and the like.

The old person's habit was to keep everything, unwilling to throw anything away, so she just stored them in the drawer.

"The Chen family? Indeed, they are being hidden by this Old Lord."

A bit of joy appeared in the girl Gu's eyes; after carefully memorizing the address, she was about to leave, but then turned around and came back.

She rummaged through the wardrobe, found a cotton jacket that looked a bit old-fashioned, black, and somewhat old-fashioned.

This clothes was bought by Chen Yan in Jin Ling Prefecture last month and mailed back to give to the Old Grandma to wear in winter.

Except for the style being a bit old-fashioned, there were no other faults.

At least after the girl took off her small jacket and put it on, she didn't look like she had walked out of a period drama.

The girl stood before the mirror and examined herself for a while, then nodded in satisfaction.

Touching her gurgling stomach, the girl didn't stand on ceremony; she walked straight into the kitchen and indeed found half a bag of rice, and also found some pickled vegetables.

There was nothing else left—before Chen Yan left home, there was originally some cured meat in the house, but he gave it all to the neighbors before leaving.

The girl started a fire in the kitchen and cooked a pot of rice, eating it with the pickled vegetables...

Miamiamiamia...

The happiness of being full surged into her heart, and only then did the corners of the girl's mouth curl up.

It was just... her brows furrowed again.

She still had to climb a train to get to Jin Ling Prefecture.

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Chen Yan sat in the hall of the Gangcheng Airport, his face bearing a suppressed excitement; his eyes were scanning everywhere, and it was unclear what he was searching for with his gaze.

Well, actually, he was looking for ghosts.

Last night, while idling in the hotel, he tried using the simplest spell he had seen in that booklet.

Opening the Heavenly Eye.

The name is very grand, but actually, it is not like that at all.

Actually, to put it plainly, it is a technique for observing Qi.

Soak fresh willow leaves and peeled tender branches in water for two hours, then wash the eyes with this water.

Then, combined with the mantra written in the booklet, circulate the primal energy through the microcosmic orbit, and then nourish the eyes.

One can then open the Third Eye, allowing one to see evil and strange things invisible to ordinary people. When circulating primal energy to infuse the eyes while observing a person, one can also perceive that person's fortune, decline, prosperity, and disaster qi.

This was the unique technique Chen Yan confirmed, after searching through the entire manual, as the only one his current level could attempt to cast.

It was said that after opening the Third Eye, one could see the demons and strange anomalies around, and even observe the qi of people.

His heart was fresh with novelty at the moment, and he couldn't help but look around everywhere.

It was like the mindset of a child who had just received a new toy.

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However... after Chen Yan opened his Third Eye, from the moment he left the hotel all the way to the airport, he widened his eyes and searched everywhere, yet saw absolutely nothing.

In movies, there are those born with the Yin-Yang Eye, capable of seeing ghosts and monsters invisible to ordinary people...

Why haven't I seen a single one?

Is the spell ineffective?

It was time to board, and Chen Yan...

... of course, was sitting in First Class!

He had money now, after all.

Actually, for Chen Yan, who had been poor for twenty years, he did have a bit of curiosity about First Class.

After all, he had seen posts online before, the kind about how to hit on flight attendants on a plane...

Someone had summarized dozens of methods, claiming the success rate was very high.

At the end of the article, there was another sentence: The above methods are only effective when used in First Class.

Isn't that... nonsense!

If you are already sitting in First Class, a rich man flirting with girls naturally has a charm bonus buff.

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Sitting in the First Class seat, Chen Yan initially felt fresh and explored the functions of the First Class seat for a while, then pretended to be calm and ordered a drink.

However, hitting on flight attendants was out of the question; Chen Yan was a gentleman.

After all, in the domestic region, various "flight attendant scandals" appeared frequently... making Chen Yan have little goodwill toward that group.

After the plane took off, Chen Yan simply put on an eye mask and closed his eyes to rest.

He had read spells all night last night, plus it was his first time entering the path and his first time attempting to cast a spell, so his spirit had been excited all night without sleep.

At this moment, he truly felt a bit sleepy.

Closing his eyes, he slept for less than an hour, when Chen Yan suddenly felt a shiver run through his whole body!

It was that feeling of stepping into empty space while dreaming, with coldness spreading through the body and chest tightness with shortness of breath.

In short, everything felt wrong.

Chen Yan removed his eye mask and opened his eyes; after a moment of thought, he realized something was wrong!

His body had already accepted the Primal Energy of Heaven and Earth, and he had entered the foundation of the Movement Method. With the Primal Energy entering his body, his perception of his surroundings had become far more sensitive than that of ordinary people.

Especially his perception of external changes or omens from the unseen realm had to be even sharper.

Thinking of this, Chen Yan immediately stabilized his breathing and, according to the manual "Fortune Cycle Numbers," calculated his fortune.

Not calculating would have been better; once he calculated, it didn't matter, Chen Yan's face instantly turned dark!

"How is this possible?"

The calculation showed that the fortune for this flight was extremely ominous.

There would be a disaster of blood!

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